Window.



L'RICHARDS8a A. H. SHULL.

WINDOW. APPLICATION FILED DEU. 4, 19 13.

Patented 861113.22, 1914.

Anonqfrs l UNITED STATES PATENT; oEEIoE.

" FnANxIIEE RICHARDS AND ANDERSON HAnnIsoN sIIULL, or EAEIIINGTN, -Y MINNESOTA.

WINDOW.

Application med December 4, ma. serial No. 804,607.

Tall whom 'it may concern l Be it known that'we, VFRANK L. RICHARDS 'and ANDERSON H. SHULL, citizens of the United States, and residents of Farmlngton, in the county of Dakota and State of Mmnesota, have invented a new-and Improved Window, of which the following 1s a full, clear, and exact description. D

Our invention relates to a window frame adapted toy receive either a wstorm sash or the sashes or frames of screens the screens and stormsash bein interchangeable. means of our inventlon, the ordinary w1ndow frame when originally constructed, may be modified at the outer portion to receive the storm sashes or screens, or in the4 case of window frames already in position, or made up conventionally, may be provided with an auxiliary frame to receive the interchangeable storm sashes and screens.

The invention provides for the insertion 5 iper sash 14 1s first placed 1n posltion by be- .ing passed into the lower portion of the and removal of the storm sashes and screens, or the changing of the same, from the 1nterior of a room simply by raising the usual lower sash of a sliding window, to give access to the frames.

,The invention will be particularly explained in the specific description following.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a front view of a window embodying our invention; Fig. 2 is a vertical section through the window frame and through the Stiles of the sashes; Fig. 3 is a fragmentary vertical section showing the upper sash in position, and with the lower sash in the act of being placed or removed; Fig. 4 is a perspective viewof a fragment of a windowframe; Fig. 5 is a horizontal section on the line 5-5 in Fi 1; Fig. 6 is a view similar to Fig. 5, but il ustrating the screens in place of the 'storm sashes; Fig. 7 is a fragmentary front view of the upper storm sash; Fig. 8 is a fragmentary view of the lower storm sash; and Fig. 9 1s a fragmentary detail showing upper and lower screens in the window frame.

In carrying out our.invention a window frame 1() is provided in the Stiles thereof, at

the upper portions of the latter .and in the top rail, with a groove 11, thereby providing an inner bead or stop 12. Thel stops are cut away from about the line of the meet-' ing rails of the sashes, thereby providing rabbets 13 below the line of the meeting rails, said rabbets being complementary to the grooves 11.

In connection with the window frame thus formed, an upper storm sash 14 may be employed and a lower storm sash A15. The uppervsash 14 is providedwith a bead or flange 14 at the sides and top to fit the groove 11, and' the bottom rail of the upper -sash is rabbeted at the outside, as at 14";

while the top rail of the lower sash 15 is reversely rabbeted at the front, as at 155. The upper sash is thus provided with a depending bead-or flange 14 on the lower rail which is received in the rabbet 15h of the lower sash. The Stiles of the lower-sash 15 are rabbeted, as at 15,.to conform to the? yrabbets 13. l

lVith the described construction the\up,

modated in the rabbets 13 of said frame.

The sash is then raised to its positionin the top of the frame, the flan-ge or `bead 14 sliding in the groovesl 11. The lower sash 15 is now set in the framev beneath the upper sash, the meeting rails of the upper andlower sashes bein caused to overlap by reason of the rab ets .14", 15b. With the lower sash in position, the upper sash rests thereon and the overlapped meeting rails form a tight joint for the sashes. Turnbuttons 16 or equivalent means on the frame serve to retain the lower sash against outward movement. g

In warm weather provision is made for substituting for the storm sashes 14, or 15, upper and lower screen sashes or frames 20, 21, as in Figs. 5 and 6. The upper screen has beads 22 formed on the -stiles thereof to fit the grooves 11, said beads corresponding with the beads 14a on the storm sash 14.` The lower `sash screen or frame is provided at the outer upper corners of the top Vrail with recesses 21 to conform to the 'lower ends of the stops 12, and the side rails ofthe lower sash are rabbeted at the outer side, as

.at 20, similarly to th'e rabbets 15 on the Patent 1'. Ina window, a window frame having vertical grooves in the stiles thereof at the upper portions, and rabbets in said stiles below and complementary to the said grooves, the said frame presenting inner beads at the front of the grooves, said beads terminating at approximately the horizontal center of the frame and overhanging the rabbets, an upper auxiliar frame havingibeads on the stiles thereof slidably fitting the said grooves, and a lower auxiliarv frame removably fitting in the rabbeted lower portionof the window frame beneath the upper sash, the meeting rails Vof the auxiliary frames being in vertical alinement and reversely rabbeted.

2. In a window, a window frame havin the Stiles thereof formed with vertica grooves in the upper half and rabbeted at the lower half in line with the grooves, u

er and lower auxiliary frames removably gtting the window frame and in vertical alinement with each other, the lower .auxiliary frame having its stiles rabbeted reand the upper sash being supported on the top of the lower sash and provided on the stilcs thereof with beads slidably fitting the grooves of the window frame.

3. In a window, a window frame havin the stiles thereof formed with vertica er half and rabbeted at grooves in the up the lower half in line with the grooves, up-

T terminating Ithe upper ends of auxiliary-frame Ahaving vertical beads -on ger and lower auxiliary frames removably tting the window frame and in vertical alinement with each other2 the lower auxiliary frame having its stlles rabbeted reversely to the rabbets of the window frame, and the upper sash being provided on the Stiles thereof with beads grooves of the window frame.

4. In a window, a window frame having vertical grooves in the upper half of the stiles thereof presenting inner vertical beads at the approximately horizontal center of the frame, and rabbetedat the lower half in vertical alinement with the vertical grooves, the beads overhanging the rabbets, an upper the stiles thereof slidably fitting the grooves vof the window frameyand the lower auxiliar frame received in the rabbeted lower. portion of the window frame and supportmg the upper auxiliary frame, the said lower `frame having its Stiles Arabbeted reversely to the rabbets of the window 'frame and having its upper, outer corners recessed Ato accommodate the lower terminals of the versely to the rabbets of the window frame,

beads.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification in the presence of two. subscribing witnesses.

` FRANK LEE' RICHARDS.

ANDERSON HARRISON SHULL. 'Witnesses:

JANE A. CLARK, LAINEY A. GRAY.

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